Prisoners: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

                 Prisoners

                There is no heart cry

                left unheard

                no innocent victim

                left unseen

                human rights buried

                still recorded

                laws subverted

                still on tablets

                no cover-up

                hidden from truth

                justice all prevails

                in heaven's courtroom.

Psalm 37:21: "'The wicked borrow, and do not pay back, but the righteous are generous and keep giving.'"

Kingdom Manna

Hour

Matthew 8:12, “while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Driven by whips

and cords of wrath

deep in Egypt’s land. A people cried.

And God heard. He remembered.

With gifts of love and covenant.

He lavished them.

Land of milk and honey. A Law to serve.

And they prospered. And they forgot.

Dignity stripped. Dispossessed.

Exiled deep in Babylon.

On the river’s edge they cried.

And God heard. Again He restored.

Words of scripture. Prophets sent.

Hoped for Messiah stood

among them. Present.

And they were blind. They refused.

And God’s heart broke. And He cried.

Psalm of Worship: Psalm 107:10-11

Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in misery and in irons

for they had rebelled against the word of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.